Solaris 2.6 NIS master problems

Thanks to Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>

The problem is that the SunOS boxes were running at a broadcast address of

137.71.0.0 instead of 137.71.255.255. It seems the default is 0s when it

should really be 1s - a little reading told me that when SunOS came out there

was no finalized standard.

Anyhow, changing /etc/netmasks from

   137.71.0.0 255.255.0.0

to

   137.71.255.255 255.255.0.0

did the trick

Thanks for the quick response Casper

 - J

Original Post:

On Sep 14, 1998, Jay Donoghue said:

>

>Hi Managers,

>

>We are trying to move from a SunOS 4.1.4 NIS master to a Solaris 2.6 5/98

>NIS master (and slave servers). Note that we are not using shadow password

>at this time, the password file looks like a standared SunOS passwd file.

>

>NIS starts fine on the master and slaves (mixed Solaris and SunOS). Solaris

>clients bind to the NIS domain, but SunOS clients hang after starting ypbind

>saying that the server for domain "blah" is not responding.

>

>I snooped these failing SunOS machines, and they kept outputting "NONACK NIS"

>errors.

>

>We found a web page that discussing the use of the "-B" variable in

>the Makefile and 'ypxfr -b' that may be related to this problem, but

>we can't seem to understand the chart. The URL is:

>http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2/coll.47.4/NETNAME/@Ab2PageView/36472?DwebQuery=NIS+

>so

>laris+sunos

>

>In the meantime, we have reverted back to the SunOS master.

>

>Thanks in advance - I will summarize,

>

> - Jay Donoghue


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